92 Quotes About Sentiment



  • Author Ann Radcliffe
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    Remember, too, that one act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

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  • Author Jim Harrison
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    By not letting places be themselves we show our contempt for them. We bury them in sentiment, then suffocate them to death in one way or another. I can ruin both the desert and the Museum of Modern Art in New York by carrying to them an insufferable load of distinctions that disallows actually seeing the flora and fauna or the paintings. Children are usually better at finding mushrooms and arrowheads because they are either ignorant of or unwilling to carry the load.

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  • Author Bev Flynn
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    Unpublished.What if I, revealed these feelingsprivate pieces, cast… at stranger’s eyesexposing sober thought, and truthas sentiments, lie deepinterred, inside of me… should they come alive? Unconsciouslyto never share, that essence... safe, in mindRestlessness wordplay, stills meI was born… unsettledThrough my rage, of self-indulgenceall… those chosen things, I hidedeep and unexposedstay inconsolable… within the inside

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  • Author G.K. Chesterton
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    She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her practicality into her practice. In modern Imperial wars, the case is reversed. Our dreams, our aims are always, we insist, quite practical. It is our practice that is dreamy.

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